What if we just break down the walls separating Lean and Agile?

What if we just break down the walls separating Lean and Agile?

This article is provided courtesy of theleanmag, a content partner of the Operational Excellence Society. What I like most about “Lean” or Kaizen is that when you apply it in the correct way and in the way it usually was designed to be implemented, you can make people’s work easier and less stressful. To me that…

How do you stay on course when the direction keeps changing?

How do you stay on course when the direction keeps changing?

What technology companies need to do to create an agile operating model in today’s unpredictable world. Questions to ask Can your operating model stand up in an unpredictable world? Will your operating model propel you into the future? Is your operating model agile enough? The recent rise in global trade-related risks and technology nationalism has…

How Firms Can Become More Resilient in the New Normal

How Firms Can Become More Resilient in the New Normal

Emerging from the pandemic, tomorrow’s successful businesses will make themselves more resilient to unexpected crises. They will intensify the use of digital technologies in cloud computing, cyber security, cognitive and artificial intelligence tools and the Internet of Things. Empowered with these tools, they will also have greater flexibility in managing costs and the agility to…

Outliers Inn; A Varied but Interconnected Conversation

Outliers Inn; A Varied but Interconnected Conversation

Topic: One of our regular guests, Don Burshnick, stands-in for Antlerboy and takes his place behind the bar at The Outliers Inn – somewhere at which he is all too familiar and steps right into the roll. We start the evening off with a discussion about SpaceX and the successful completion of their manned mission…

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Lean management or agile? The right answer may be both

Has there even been a time when customers were more demanding of the companies serving them? Industry 4.0 technologies—many barely imaginable only a decade ago—have already enabled genuine breakthroughs in cost, convenience, and customization, creating extraordinary value for buyers while raising the performance bar for producers ever higher. And then there’s the volatility that never entirely disappears,…